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tertiary

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tertiary (from Latin tertiarius ) is an adjective meaning "third" or "third hand". It may refer to: The Tertiary period of the geologic time scale. In economics the tertiary sector (of industry) is the service sector or the service industry (as opposed ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES tertiary education COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN care ▪ A possible future is that regions will pass away and districts amalgamate to make contracts for more specialist services - tertiary care . ▪ The report of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tertiary \Ter"ti*a*ry\, n.; pl. Tertiaries . (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order , under Third . --Addis & Arnold. (Geol.) The ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position [syn: third , 3rd ] n. from 63 million to 2 million years ago [syn: Tertiary period ]

Usage examples of tertiary.

The tertiary level becomes theatrical because the satiric performance by a character echoes the theatrical performance of the satirist, calling attention to the performative nature of the play itself.

He has overlapped as fully as seems possible the tertiary, secondary, and primary performative levels of theatricality, social roles, and discourse, and amid the resulting confusion he has insisted that we make the distinctions necessary to judgment.

IV ports, administering additional doses of vitamins E and C, tirilazad mesylate, and phenyl tertiary butyl nitrone.

During the Tertiary period members of the genera now known under the names of Lenzites, Polyporus, and Hydnum were all in existence.

Traces of the quadrumane, or monkey, have been found in the older tertiaries of France, India, and England.

Ribeiro immediately began his own investigations, and in many localities found flakes of worked flint and quartzite in Tertiary beds.

In 1871, Ribeiro presented to the Portuguese Academy of Science at Lisbon a collection of flint and quartzite implements, including some gathered from the Tertiary formations of the Tagus valley.

I saw the antehistorical times revivified, when the Tertiary and Quaternary periods passed before me, was now realized!

Tertiary and the Quaternary period, but that during this succession of ages its ancestors were not confined to some given, limited area of the globe.

In some books, too, you will find the tertiary and quaternary taken out and replaced by periods of different lengths called the Palaeogene and Neogene.

The Sarsen Stones are the remains of a cap of Tertiary Sandstone which once covered the plain.

At the moment we have a force of ninety tertiary forms in two grades, light cataphracti, and small pups.

And, as if to make the case as striking as possible, this sessile cirripede was a Chthamalus, a very common, large, and ubiquitous genus, of which not one specimen has as yet been found even in any tertiary stratum.

Would her array be able to receive a transmission from the FTL telemetry downlinks aboard the tertiary array?

Intellectual tertiaries are present, the secondaries and firsts are present too.